John Walling

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Cyclone Football (@CycloneFB) Tweeted:
Rory Walling sniffs out the fake punt. Big play for the Cyclones.

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[Iowa State Football @CycloneFB]

Rory Walling sniffs out the fake punt. Big play for the Cyclones.

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[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Source: Axios

Absolutely NOT …
Tax payer backed incentives !!??
Lower property taxes !!! https://t.co/VWge3EFQSE

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

@KeithMurphy So sad that BIG corporate thinks they know what medium to smaller markets want ..,
They are absolutely clueless!!!!

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

What a phenomenon!!!!

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

50 Years Ago Tonight

"THE BIRD IS THE WORD"

June 28, 1976

A national television audience catches its first glimpse of the Detroit #Tigers' quirky, enigmatic rookie pitching phenom — Mark "The Bird" Fidrych.

The American League's eventual 1976 Rookie of the Year, Fidrych scatters seven hits en route to a 5-1 complete-game victory over the Yankees on ABC's "Monday Night Baseball" from Tiger Stadium.

"The Bird" runs his record to a gaudy 8-1 with an sparkling 2.05 ERA.

He would be tabbed as the AL's starting pitcher for the All-Star Game two weeks later — only the second rookie ever to earn that honor.

(Bob Prince, Bob Uecker, and Warner Wolf on the call for ABC Sports)

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Epic

[Monty Python @montypython]

“WELEASE WOGER!”

#MontyPython

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

He was a beast

[Mike Green @Beener1435]

Two-time national champion ('87 and '89) Tim Krieger works out in the Beyer Hall wrestling room.
#CyclONEnation

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Above zero!!
I’m good

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Reminder that 95° and humid is better than 10° and a wind chill

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1778, the American army walked onto a field in New Jersey to take its final exam, in heat so brutal the weather killed men on its own, and by sundown the world knew the rebels had become a real army.

This was the test. The same men who nearly died at Valley Forge over the winter, then got rebuilt drill by drill by the Prussian von Steuben, were finally going to stand against British regulars in the open. And it started as a catastrophe. Charles Lee, leading the advance, lost his nerve and ordered a retreat just as the fight opened, and the whole attack began to unravel.

Then came one of the defining moments of George Washington's life. He rode straight into the collapsing line, found Lee, and tore into him in front of the troops so furiously that one witness said the curses made "the leaves shake on the trees." Then he did the thing that mattered. He rode out in front of his fleeing soldiers, rallied them under fire, and personally reformed the line. The army that was supposed to break instead turned around and stood.

The heat was its own enemy. It was one of the hottest days anyone could remember, men in heavy wool collapsing and dying of heatstroke on both sides without a shot fired. Out of that misery came an American legend: Mary Hays, remembered as Molly Pitcher, carrying water to the gasping gunners through the chaos, and when her husband went down at his cannon, taking his place and helping work the gun herself.

When the smoke cleared it was technically a draw. But the British slipped away in the night toward New York, and the Americans held the field. That was the whole point. The Valley Forge army had stood toe to toe with the best soldiers in the world and refused to break. It was the last big battle in the north, and the rebels walked off it as a different kind of army than the one that walked on.

You spend the whole winter wondering if the suffering meant anything. Then one brutal afternoon, you find out it built exactly what you needed.

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Cork & Limerick!!!!

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

@nature_viewss No

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

@SBollenbaugh That is awesome

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Still have my mama’s green
One …
Top left

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Come on out!!
We got her done early !!!
She’s in GREAT shape !!
Yep…
Grandview !!

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

@thetachi1460 We had our kids do the stirring..,
But have not seen or done it since!!
Loooooong time ago …

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Yes !!

[Lorraine Y @kenyladynv]

#nostalgia

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

@thetachi1460 100 percent !!

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

A/C & a 2nd Bathroom

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

I got to do it !!
Oh so blessed and grateful !!!

[Johnny Cadillac @lippyent]

Hmm 😒 🤔?¿

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

Most incredible !!
Nothing but respect

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

250 years ago today, on June 28, 1776, a half-finished fort made of palm tree logs and sand did something it had no business doing: it beat the most powerful navy on earth and saved the American South. We just hit the 250th anniversary of one of the most improbable victories of the entire Revolution.

The setup looked hopeless. A massive British fleet under Admiral Sir Peter Parker sailed into Charleston harbor to crush the rebellion in the south before it could grow. Guarding the city was an unfinished little fort on Sullivan's Island, defended by Colonel William Moultrie and a few hundred men. The walls weren't even done. One British officer reportedly figured they'd flatten it in an hour.

Then the palmetto logs did the impossible. The fort was built from soft, spongy palmetto wood packed with sand, and instead of shattering when the British cannonballs hit, the logs just absorbed them. Iron sank into the mush and stuck. The fleet hammered that fort for hours and could not break it, while the American gunners coolly fired back and tore the British warships apart. Several ships ran aground. Admiral Parker himself got hit so hard that the blast literally ripped the seat out of his pants.

And then the moment that became legend. When a cannon blast knocked the fort's flag down, Sergeant William Jasper climbed out over the wall, in the middle of the bombardment, grabbed the fallen colors, and raised them back up so everyone could see the fort still stood.

By nightfall the British fleet limped away. They wouldn't seriously come back to the south for nearly three more years. South Carolina loved that fort so much it put the palmetto tree on its state flag, where it still flies today.

A quarter of a millennium later, the lesson still lands. Sometimes the thing everyone writes off as too soft and too unfinished to matter is the exact thing that refuses to break.

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

I certainly did…
Considered it an honor

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Yes……. I did!!

[John Walling @BlueCollar82]

True

[Cyclone Kingdom @CycloneKingdom]

Charlie Kolar is the best TE in Cyclone history and it’s not close 😱🌪️

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

This is where it all began... The Fertile Crescent... The cradle of civilization...

For the first 190,000 years or so of human existence, we roved about in small hunter-gatherer bands, eking out a subsistence living day to day, constantly in fear of predators and of other humans. But about 10,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq, some people decided to stay put. It is impossible to overstate the importance of that decision.

In Fertile Crescent an agriculturally-based society arose. Rather than wandering around searching for food in a constant state of conflict, humans began to plant seeds and grow their own crops. To store it they began building structures. To protect it they banded together in cooperation and mutual defense. Whereas before human societies were typically limited to a few dozen people, now villages arose—then towns, then cities. And humanity flourished.

Here, in these early settlements in the Fertile Crescent, humans first developed written language (probably to keep track of accounts). They domesticated animals. They invented the wheel, the plow, and multi-story architecture. Monotheistic religion arose. By about 2500 B.C. the first libraries were created. The things that we think of as characterizing “civilization” began here.

A few thousand years ago people from the Fertile Crescent fanned out into Europe and Asia, taking with them the knowledge accumulated there. And seeds and farm animals. The rest is history.

Of course, it wasn’t all pretty. We were still humans after all. Although social cooperation emerged on a scale that would have been previously unimaginable, violence and what we would now regard as superstition and injustice remained. But in the Fertile Crescent humans had taken an immensely important first step toward the flowering of the incredible civilization we enjoy today.

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